18.4. Tracing
Tracing functionality is provided with Windows PowerShell, but it is intended primarily for use by Microsoft support staff. However, if you want to explore beneath the covers what Windows PowerShell is doing, the tracing cmdlets can be very useful. However, the volume of information produced can quickly become daunting.
There are three such cmdlets:
trace-command
set-tracesource
get-tracesource
I describe each of these cmdlets briefly in the following sections.
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